Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

resistance, he succeeded in climbing the tree, and this accomplished we dropped the pole and gave the enemy the laugh along with it.

But we were doomed to disappointment in this escapade, if we were in all the others of the evening except one, as you shall see.  Jack was soon at the top of the tree and prepared to make his way across to the post.  Just as he was breaking off a branch with which to procure the colors when he was across, a deep voice broke the excitement-laden atmosphere with the words: “Here get down out of there as quick as you know how.  You can climb the post but you can’t break up the trees”

Whirling around, we beheld Probert, our school janitor.  From